https://cwre.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Awards%2FGolden_Straw-ManAwards/Golden Straw-Man - Revision history2026-05-03T13:40:19ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.0https://cwre.org/w/index.php?title=Awards/Golden_Straw-Man&diff=494&oldid=prevWoozle: Bulut2015-02-06T13:08:59Z<p>Bulut</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''2014/12/16''' Peter Morcombe, for [https://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/countering-consensus-calculations/ Countering Consensus Calculations]: "Nobody believes in CAGW any more; today we discuss 'Climate Change'. You have to love the brilliance of this re-branding... who could dissent with the idea that climate will change?" He goes on to rant about the downsizing of Kennedy Space Center "while the Goddard Institute of Space Studies remains fully funded"; all of his hypotheses about why this might be the case assume injustice or incompetence. (The {{l/wp|Goddard Institute for Space Studies}} (GISS) is focused on Earth studies, including climate change.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''2014/12/16''' Peter Morcombe, for [https://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/countering-consensus-calculations/ Countering Consensus Calculations]: "Nobody believes in CAGW any more; today we discuss 'Climate Change'. You have to love the brilliance of this re-branding... who could dissent with the idea that climate will change?" He goes on to rant about the downsizing of Kennedy Space Center "while the Goddard Institute of Space Studies remains fully funded"; all of his hypotheses about why this might be the case assume injustice or incompetence. (The {{l/wp|Goddard Institute for Space Studies}} (GISS) is focused on Earth studies, including climate change.)</div></td></tr>
</table>Woozlehttps://cwre.org/w/index.php?title=Awards/Golden_Straw-Man&diff=493&oldid=prevWoozle: Morcombe2015-02-06T12:42:56Z<p>Morcombe</p>
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</table>Woozlehttps://cwre.org/w/index.php?title=Awards/Golden_Straw-Man&diff=492&oldid=prevWoozle: saving work; enter nominees tomorrow2015-02-06T02:41:22Z<p>saving work; enter nominees tomorrow</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Golden Straw-Man Award''' is given to those who most blatantly misrepresent their opponents' arguments in ways that are ridiculously easy to demolish. We haven't yet worked out how often the award will be bestowed or what it will consist of, but we are definitely thinking hard about it.<br />
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It is named jointly after the {{l/ip|straw man argument}} and the well-known character in ''The Wizard of Oz'' who wishes for a brain.<br />
==Nominees==</div>Woozle